Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780191534836
0191534838
1280905824
9781280905827
9786610905829
6610905827
0199276579
9780199276578
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 326-345) and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and graffitied texts on physiognomy to interpret the way that these books were read and viewed, and trace the changes that took place between. the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Romanticism. - ;In late fifteenth century Florence, Renaissance h.
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| Other form: | Print version: Porter, Martin (Martin Henry). Windows of the soul. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2005 9780199276578 0199276579
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